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NYTimes Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction

New York Times API Dev Portal, opens in a new windowAuthoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Find more lists of chart-topping books on our New York Times Best Seller Lists page.

Most links below are to print books; check Overdrive for eBooks. Book covers provided by Syndetics depending on availability.

Find The Body Keeps The Score in LINKcat
#1
352 weeks on the list
by Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

Find On Tyranny in LINKcat
#2
131 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.

Find The British Are Coming in LINKcat
#3
8 weeks on the list
by Rick Atkinson | Holt

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist begins his Revolution Trilogy with events from 1775 to 1777.

Find Educated in LINKcat
#4
101 weeks on the list
by Tara Westover | Random House

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

Find The Nine in LINKcat
#5
1 weeks on the list
by Gwen Strauss | St. Martin's Griffin

During World War II, a group of women escaped from a death march and made their way back to Paris.

Find A Little History Of The United States in LINKcat
#6
3 weeks on the list
by James West Davidson | Yale University

An overview of key figures in our country’s history.

Find Born A Crime in LINKcat
#7
240 weeks on the list
by Trevor Noah | One World

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the former host of “The Daily Show.”

Find Signs in LINKcat
#8
13 weeks on the list
by Laura Lynne Jackson | Dial

A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.

Find The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#9
511 weeks on the list
by Jeannette Walls | Scribner

The author recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

Find The Wager in LINKcat
#10
21 weeks on the list
by David Grann | Vintage

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

Find Outliers in LINKcat
#11
378 weeks on the list
by Malcolm Gladwell | Back Bay

Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.

Find Just Mercy in LINKcat
#12
319 weeks on the list
by Bryan Stevenson | One World

A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

Find The Wide Wide Sea in LINKcat
#13
8 weeks on the list
by Hampton Sides | Vintage

The author of “On Desperate Ground” depicts Captain James Cook’s final voyage and the controversies surrounding its legacy.

Find Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#14
274 weeks on the list
by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Milkweed Editions

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

Find The Backyard Bird Chronicles in LINKcat
#15
58 weeks on the list
by Amy Tan | Knopf

Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” which depict a search for peace through birding.